Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Joe Habraken is a computer technology professional with more than a dozen years of experience as an educator and consultant in the information technology field. A Microsoft Certified Professional, he has also served as the lead instructor for the Networking Technologies program at Globe College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Introduction. Using (Not Abusing) This Book. What's New in This Book? I. Taking the Windows 2000 Plunge. 1. What's New in Windows 2000 Server? How Many Versions of Windows 2000 Are There? "Plug and Pray" Becomes Plug and Play. Promotions and Demotions with Windows 2000 Server. The Active Directory Is Not a List of Exercise Programs. In Charge with the Microsoft Management Console. Becoming Whole with Disk Defragmenter. 2. Seeing the Forest for the Trees-Windows 2000 Forests, Trees, and Domains. Out on a Limb with Windows 2000 Server. Go Climb a Tree. Even Little Red Riding Hood Made It Through the Forest. A Summary Is in Order (Before You Fall Out of Your Tree). Workgroups Work Too. 3. The Big Picture-Planning Your Windows 2000 Network. Piecing Together Your Network Puzzle. Cabling. Network Interface Card (NIC). Hubs. Computers. Printers. Mapping the Network. Don't Go Soft on Server Hardware. You Can't Do Your Nails with This File (System) License, Please! 4. Installing Windows 2000 Server. Ready for Lift Off (Almost). Trading in the Old for the New. Breathing Life into a New System. The Four-Disk Set of the Apocalypse. All Systems Are Go! I Don't Look Good in Blue. A Window on the World (and Your Installation). 5. A Recipe for Server Roles. Why Fish and Server-Based Networks Are Scalable. Get 'Em While They're Hot: Server Roles. Bringing Your Domain Controller to Life. Join the Club (Okay, Domain). Fulfilling Your Server's Destiny. 6. You as Network Ambassador: Network Protocols. The ABCs of Network Protocols. Throw Him a NetBEUI (Pronounced Net-Buoy, Get It?). IPX/SPX Is Not a New Tax Form. Taxing Your Brain with TCP/IP. So, What's Your IP Address? Windows 2000 Configuration Etiquette for Network Protocols. I Was Framed by NWLink (IPX/SPX). TCP/IP: Who Is That Subnet Masked Man? 7. Taking Control: The Windows Control Panel. Control from the Top Down That Does Not Involve Lycra. You're on Display. The Hard Knocks School of Hardware Profiles. Performance Art: No Mimes Allowed! My Memory Is Great (And You Are?). Fighting for Processing Power. Installing New Hardware the Easy Way. Installing New Hardware the Hard Way. The Wonderful World of Hardware Resources. Direct Memory Access Isn't Memory-Enhancing Surgery. Input/Ouput-Doing the Hokey Pokey! IRQs Can Be Very IRQsome Irksome. My Memory Isn't What It Used to Be. A Final Word on Hardware Resources. II. Becoming King/Queen of Your Windows 2000 Domain. 8. Getting Active with the Active Directory. What Is the Active Directory? Tools of the Trade: Active Directory Snap-Ins. The Active Directory Users and Computers Snap-In. The Active Directory Domains and Trusts Snap-In. The Active Directory Sites and Services Snap-In. Quiet or I'll Give You Something to Cry About: ChildDomains. Fooling Around with Active Directory Objects. Getting Organized with Organizational Units. Lost But Soon Found: Finding Objects in the Active Directory. The Awful Truth About Domain Name Service. 9. Everyone into the Pool, It's Group Policy. What Is Group Policy? Properties That Come with a View (of Group Policy). When Inheritance Isn't Necessarily a Good Thing. Blame It on the Editor (Group Policy Editor, That Is). It's Your Group (Policy). Making Policy (Creating a New GPO). You're the Head of Security. You're Being Audited. Auditing Is a Go! Share and Share Alike (But with Auditing). Viewing the Audit Events. Final Words on Group Policy. 10. It's Not Much of a Network Without Users. All About User Accounts. Planning User Accounts. So, What's in a Name? What's the Password? Other User Account Considerations. Creating Domain User Accounts. Controlling User Properties-This Is Not a Real Estate Scam! Setting Account Options-No, You Don't Get an ATM Card. Working with the Profile Tab. Deleting User Accounts. Creating Local User Accounts. Some Final Words About User Accounts. 11. Collective Bargaining-Creating User Groups. All About Windows 2000 Groups. The Universe Is Mine (Okay, It's the Group's). Global Domination Groups. Going Loco with Domain Local Groups. Making Sense Out of Windows 2000 Groups. A Little Bit About Built-In Groups. Built-In Global Groups. Built-In Domain Local Groups. Planning Your Groups. Group Activities-Creating Groups. Get with the Group-Adding Users to Groups. As Easy as Bird Nest Soup-Nesting Groups. Grouping Your Thoughts. III. Juggling Your Windows 2000 Network. 12. Adding Client Computers to the Network. Working with Network Clients. You've Got to Speak the Right Protocol. Installing Protocols on Windows 2000 Clients. Installing Protocols on Windows NT Clients. Installing Protocols on Windows 95/98 Clients. Connecting Computers to the Domain. Connecting a Windows 2000 Client to the Domain. Connecting a Windows NT Client to the Domain Connecting a Windows 95/98 Client to the Domain. A Final Word on Client Computers. 13. Everything That's Fit to Print-Adding Network Printers. All About Network Printing. Printing on a Windows 2000 Network. Setting Up a Local Printer. You've Got to Learn to Share. Lost But Now Found-Finding Printers in the Active Directory. Working with Directly Connected Printers. Installing the Printer Port. Choosing the Printer. Print Queues Have Nothing to Do with Billiards. 14. Learning to Share: Network Shares and the Distributed File System. Understanding Windows 2000 Shares. Setting Up Network Shares. Simon Says: Dealing with Share Permissions. Adding Groups and Users to the Permissions Box. Assigning Permissions. Client Connections: Is There a Share Out There? I Don't Need No Stinking NTFS Permissions-Or Do I? Other Ways to Share: The Distributed File System. Setting Up the Distributed File System Root. Adding a Child Link (No Babysitter Required). 15. Making Hard Drives and RAID Easy Work. The Winding Road of Windows 2000 Drive Management. Managing Drives: If They Spin, You Win. Pardon Me, Is That Your Partition? Going from Basic to Dynamic (Sounds Like Quite a Makeover). I've Never Seen Such a Dynamic Volume. RAID: Not Just a Bug Killer. Mirror, Mirror on the Drive. The Tiger's Stripes: Working with RAID 5. Defraggle Rock-Working with Disk Defragmenter. 16. Looking Back-Backing Up Your Data. Don't Get Your Back Up. Tape Dispensers Are Not Tape Backup Hardware. Hard Decisions About Backup Software. I Love a Good Backup Plan. I've Always Wanted to Be Different(ial). Who Put the Mental in Incremental? Doing the Moonwalk with Windows 2000 Backup. The Big Backup. I Feel Restored. 17. Keeping an Eye on Your Domain. Putting Your Thumb on Server and Network Resources. I Feel Like Someone Is Watching Me. So, What's the Object? A Performance Window with a View. Taking a Spin on the Performance Log Ride. Counter Espionage with the Counter Log. Surveying the Log Jam. Keeping Your System on High Alert. Why Can't My Life Be More Eventful? I Would Like Some Information on That Event. Becoming a Network Hall Monitor. Getting the Network Monitor Online. Up Periscope. IV. Growing Pains-Expanding Your Windows Network. 18. Using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Understanding the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Installing DHCP on Your Server. Respect My Authority (Authorizing Your DHCP Server). Setting Up the Address Scope and Exclusion Range. Other DHCP Stuff That You Configure. Viewing Address Leases. 19. Winning the Broadcast Battle with WINS. WINS Is a Real Winner! Getting a Handle on NetBIOS. Installing WINS. Checking Out WINS. 20. Itsy, Bitsy Spider-Working the Web with Internet Information. Server. "Welcome to My Web," Said the Spider... Getting IIS5 Up and Running. Don't Get Stuck in Your Own Web. Weaving Your Web. Site Unseen? Getting Your FTP Site Online. I Want My FTP. Staying on Top of the News. I've Got News. 21. Call 911-Troubleshooting Your Windows 2000 Server. There's Trouble in River City (Turn Off the Music, Man). A Bug Just Killed My RAID. Fixing the Tiger's Stripes. Someone Broke My Mirror. Give Them the Boot. My Foot Won't Fit in the boot.ini File. Windows 2000 Server, Rest in Peace. We Just Don't Seem to Connect Anymore. Why Can't I Print? You're in the Driver's Seat. Who Broke the Printer? I Don't Like My Hardware Anymore. Strapping a Food Processor to the Server Will Not Help. I'm Losing My Memory. Is My Disk Drive Just Spinning Its Wheels? A Final Word on Troubleshooting. Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive. Index